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I'm surprised at how much I love Gypsy (and I think that this is actually my favorite of the Moth scents). I usually don't get along well with Egyptian musk, but it smells more of a warm, dry amber than musk in this scent. It's like dry amber with warm, sweet, creamy vanilla and a hint of dry spiciness from the cardamom. The vanilla and sweetness get stronger in the drydown and it smells so gorgeous, warm, and exotic. Gypsy smells very much like Ambra del Nepal on my skin (notes of amber, vanilla, and cardamom), and like Arcana's Nepalese Amber layering note. I'm very happy to have a bottle of this vanilla-y goodness, and might pick up a second bottle. It has decent throw and staying power on me too

Paper Kite is my favorite of the Butterfly scents <3. It's mostly a cool, sweet, coconut cream on my skin, with a touch of clean floral and a little sharpness from the black pepper that keeps it from being too sweet. I just love the coconut here. It somehow smells chilled and so refreshing and pretty, and it's sweet without being cloying or too heavy. Love it. It smells simple on me, but really beautiful. I'll wear this one a lot over the summer.

Obscene, lewd, lascivious, and decidedly objectionable. A filthy, post-coitus scent: sweaty and sweet, laced with laudanum, splashed with booze, and stained by tobacco. In the bottle, this sort of reminds me of Sara Pezzini. It smells like clean musk, honeyed sweetness, and sweet booze. On my skin... I love this. I don't usually like tobacco or smoky notes, but this is a sweet tobacco with a hint of sexy smokiness that almost reminds me of the slight smokiness that I get from some black leather notes. I also still get that honeyed impression, and it makes me think of honey flavored dusting powders on clean skin. I was a little worried about the booziness in the bottle, but it doesn't smell alcoholic at all on my skin. It still reminds me of Sara Pezzini, but this is a little naughtier, warmer, and smokier smelling. As it dries down, it starts to remind me more of a sweeter, warmer, sexier Dee. So, on me, this smells mostly like warm, sweet, smoky tobacco with clean skin, honey powder, and leather. Verrry sexy and I think I'll get another bottle of this one.

Hopefully this is the right place to post this... I have multiple bottles of both Inez and Priala. My older bottles don't really smell much at all like the new bottles that I ordered (and I've ordered them all directly from the lab). Old Inez is sweeter and warmer and the new Inez has a weird, sharp, musky, almost masculine thing going that I've never smelled in the earlier bottles. My older bottles of Priala have always smelled resinous and spicy, and the new bottle smells like it has vetiver in it. It's really dark, earthy, and smoky. The oil colors of the old vs new bottles also aren't quite the same. Were these scents reformulated at some point?

I've tried wearing this a couple times since I got it, and it's always a bit different, but never very good on me. I usually like the lab's gin notes, but this doesn't smell like the fizzy, sweet, juniper-y gin that I'm used to. Something in the blend makes it sharper and more citrussy-soapy, and it reminds me of cleaning fluid at times. The first time I wore this, I got that strong, slightly soapy, cleaning fluid smell and not much else. Wearing it again today, Alana Patel smells mostly like cheap cologne (soapy-fresh and with a lemon-citrus edge), maybe a hint of gin, and a drydown that smells like a hint of dirty ash tray :/. Something about the whole thing is very sour, sharp, and off-putting on me. All in all, this is pretty bad. I usually like gin and liked the idea of "faded perfume," but this is more cheap cologne, cleaning fluid, and dirty ash tray on me...

I'm not getting the lavender or coconut that others have mentioned with this blend. This is like a dryer, sharper, cleaner, more sophisticated Dorian to me. It makes me think of dry vanilla musk and hints of clean laundry, but all wrapped up in this arrogant, well polished, cologne-like smell. I actually think that this fits the concept of Dorian even better than the released version (but I'm crazy about the released version as well). I normally don't like anything clean or sharp, but the sweetness and edge that this has keep me coming back to it again and again... The drydown on me is pure heaven and so hard to describe. I'd love this on a man or a woman.

I get the very sweet, slightly plastic-y, buttery, butterscotch note that other reviewers have mentioned. My husband instantly hated this one and said that it's too sweet and too buttery. I don't get the chocolate/cocoa smell, but this reminds me very much of Gluttony... sickly, cloying sweetness that smells like it should be in a candle rather than in a personal scent. It's like butterscotch and buttercream icing on me, but toothachingly sweet and artificial smelling, with an edge to it that smells like melted plastic on me. Ick.

This is too boozy for me. It reminds me of the sour, kinda pukey champagne note in the Champagne And blends, but the drydown is more like the lab's juniper-y gin note. I thought that it smelled a bit more citrussy than usual at first, and reading the other reviews, I guess that I can see the lime. The citrus goes sharp and a bit sour on me. It's an odd mix of fizzy, dry, and sour smelling on me. It almost smells a bit like dryer sheets, but not that soapy, and obviously very boozy. I like a lot of the lab's booze blends (especially the gin ones), but this is too much for me...

I don't have much else to add about Lolita v2. It goes on smelling just like sweet, pink bubblegum with that powdery sugar edge. The drydown brings up a hint of red hots candies cinnamon that slowly takes over, but it stays really light and subtle and clings close to my skin, which is unusual for cinnamon. After about ten minutes, it's all light cinnamon candy, and then after about a half hour, I can't smell the scent at all.

I thought that I would love this, but something here is going all wrong on me. I do smell a warm, pleasant, amber-y incense at first, but I also get a perfumey floral note and the drydown goes very dry, dusty, and slightly powdery. It also has little hints of what reminds me of dried herbs. I can see how this reminds people of Sunbird, but Sunbird is much better on me...

I'm crazy about leather scents, but I don't get any leather from this . This is pretty much all generic men's cologne on me... like cool metallic, slightly soapy ozone, and sweet, smooth citrus. The drydown is pretty soapy on my skin (though this doesn't go nearly as soapy on my husband). All in all, not enough leather for me, and not unique enough for me to want it for those days when I reach for a classic men's cologne smell.

Oddly, this smells a bit like bpal's snow note on me (though it's almost dryer-sheet-clean here), but it's very warm and slightly powdery with the white amber. White tea often smells very clean on me, so perhaps that's where I'm getting the snow note feel from. Yurei is super light on me, and smells both warm and clean, giving off an impression of powdery, soft white flowers. I don't smell any of the vetiver at all. This is mostly white amber, white flowers, and clean tea.

I forgot what was in this when I first sprayed it all over my house, and thought, "Yay! Limes!" It's such a zingy, energizing, happy citrus scent. It's sweet, but not candied smelling, and it's not too tart for me either... more of a juicy citrus to my nose. The husband is sometimes not too impressed with my room scents, but he said this one is "a favorite." As usual, the spray is really strong and a quick spritz scented our large livingroom area for about six hours. I might have to get a second bottle of this before it goes away...

In the bottle and on my skin at first, the berry smells like tart, fake-y cherry and I'm getting something like a hint of herbal mintiness. Smells like cough syrup :/. As it dries down, this goes sharp and musky/perfumey (though it loses its medicinal edge, thankfully). The fruitiness start to remind me of the sugar plum feel of Midwinter's Eve, but not as sweet. The mint is frosty/watery, sharp, and slightly soapy. So I'm left with a pale fruity note and soapy mint frost, all wrapped up in a perfumey, chemical-y something. I don't smell anything like pie crust or pastry at all. It's like I mixed cheap, musky drugstore perfume over some berries and then left the mixture to get freezerburn in the bottom of my fridge for a couple years. Doesn't work out for me...

When I opened the bottle on this, I immediately had one of those "I know you" moments. It took me a while to place it, but this smells almost exactly like R.M. Renfield on me. It's like a warmer version of R.M. Renfield, but I get the same dry, slightly sour moss that goes a bit salty in the drydown, with a hint of dry citrus. It smells like rocks baked in the summer heat, covered in silvery-green, flat, hard, dry moss. Hot, dry, and heavy on the moss. If you like Bayou, this is like a dry version of Bayou.

In the bottle, this smells like a mess of dark sweetness (like cinnamon brown sugar, maple syrup, sugared nuts, and chocolate). I figured that this would be way too sweet and/or way too heavy on the spices, so I'm surprised that I actually love this scent. I was also worried that "smashed gourds" would turn out to be bpal's buttery pumpkin note, but I don't get anything buttery like that here. I have trouble with cinnamon blends going too sharp on my skin, but this is a sugared, dark, soft cinnamon. I don't think that it smells like red hots candies at all (I hate red hots candies); this is smoother and softer, and doesn't have the sharpness of red hots. Something about this scent is like a background of dry, sugared wood notes as well (maybe the dark chocolate giving me that impression). It's not overly sweet or overly spicy. I find this very dark, smooth, and wearable. It screams fall to me, but I'll wear this all year 'round. This scent is so cozy and wonderful. I'm going to need at least one more bottle, though a little dab of the oil has tons of throw and staying power on me. Ghoul Hooligan is my favorite of the Underworld Cup scents. Love it.

I think that I expected this to be more fizzy and boozy than it actually is. I don't think that it's really boozy at all, though it might have a slightly fizzy quality to it in the drydown. Mostly, Mountain of Bone smells like the clear/yellow gummi bears candies on me. Slightly pineapple-y with a touch of citrus. It's a very dry, clean sort of scent, though. The drydown reminds me of soapy dryer sheets. Mountain of Bone = pineapple and citrus flavored gummi bears nestled in a bed of soapy dryer sheets. This scent is too dry and too sharply clean smelling for me.

Cheshire Cat is my favorite citrus-lavender blend. It has the cool, smooth lavender and a bright, sweet, cheery grapefruit note (and I can't smell the other notes much at all). You might want to pick up Schrodinger's Cat as well.

I adore patchouli. I find that, of bpal's patchouli notes, the black patchouli is darker and sort of like black soil or black leather, and the red patchouli smells more of dry woods and sour, body odor :/. A lot of the regular patchouli scents just smell like dry, earthy-brown, sweet patchouli. Some of my favorites with a very strong patchouli note: *Depraved (apricot and black patchouli) - sort of smells like leather and blueberries on me, oddly. *Goblin (coconut, patchouli, and benzoin) - strong, sweet, dry, brown sort of patchouli and a creamy, very sweet coconut. *Greed (patchouli, heliotrope, copal and oakmoss) - a very dry, mossy patchouli. *Rumpelstilzchen (patchouli, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper, tonka, vetiver, and myrrh) - I find this to be very smoky, earthy, and lightly spicy... sort of like woodsmoke, wood roasting in a fireplace, and fireworks. *Sin (amber, sandalwood, black patchouli and cinnamon) - I get equal parts sweet cinnamon and earthy patchouli from this. Anne Bonny is a very strong, dry woods and patchouli scent. I'd recommend trying that one to someone who loves patch, though it doesn't work on me personally. If you're interested in tracking down some LEs, she might enjoy something like Schwarzer Mond, Luperci, Raven Moon, Falling Leaf Moon, Enyalios, Mole, Samhain, and Samhainophobia...

I don't think that you could really go wrong with any of the fragrances. I think that they're all well put together and every oil has its fans. As has already been said, I'd just try to include some of the most popular scents and a good range of oils from different scent families. Whenever I'm trying to enable people, I usually go to Dorian, Eat Me, Alice, and The Antikythera Mechanism first <3. Dorian always seems to get the best response for me...

I don't find Anesthesia to be very similar to Baku (I mean, they both have chilly notes and lavender, but they don't seem like the same types of chilly notes and lavender to me). Baku was more black licorice and menthol-minty on me with a bit of herbal lavender, where Anesthesia is a cold, sweet peppermint and cool, smooth lavender to my nose. I find Anesthesia to have a sweeter mintiness, smoother lavender, and no black licorice...

I second the recs for Bow and Crown of Conquest and Black Rider (though the opoponax & tobacco combo in Black Rider went crazy-sweet on me, I know a lot of people get a strong leather from it). I also would suggest The Red Rider. It's the GC leather blend that reminds me most of Brom Bones. I'm crazy about leather scents and that one is a strong, sexy, dark, masculine leather with a woodsy touch <3.

I'm not sure how I feel about Mr. Qubit. I like it well enough for a men's cologne scent, but it also smells sort of common and forgettable to me. It's a scent that I would find pleasant on a man, but not particularly unique or interesting. Qubit doesn't go as sharp or as soapy as I was expecting, so that's a good thing. It's a clean, cool, crisp men's cologne with a little bit of sweetness that smells slightly citrussy on me. I smell it and think "clean men's cologne - nice," but there's nothing really outstanding about it for me... I can't imagine my husband wearing this, but I wouldn't find it off-putting on someone else.

In the bottle, this really does smell like dusty, cold stone and air thick with dark, sweet incense. It makes me think of an old, stone church with wooden rafters. On my skin, it's more incense and dry wood. After about fifteen minutes, the hint of dry wood suddenly morphs into woodsmoke and it's like someone set the old church on fire. The incense also goes verrry sweet and cloying on me. I usually like incense blends, but Midnight Bell is better & more interesting in the bottle than it is on my skin... I doubt that I'd reach for this over some of the similar blends that I own, like Cathedral.

If you love opium, then I'd definitely recommend this scent. The rose seems to be very soft and well behaved, and the opium stays strong and central. Rose notes usually amp up like crazy on me, and I can only detect a faint whisper of sweet, girly, pink smelling rose here. Unfortunately, I don't really like opium. The opium here isn't as sharp as usual, but there's this hint of cheap, chemical-y, 80s hairspray underneath the creamy, white smokiness that I can't stand. I could see this being really lovely on someone who can pull off opium notes, though.